Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-14
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE DEXTER SENSATION. Barron's Murderers Brought To Town. THE STAFFORD BANK WRECK Growing BIacker And More
 Hopeless.
CROW INDIANS ON A RAMPAGE
Led On By A Bad Young
 Buck.
CASHIER BARRON's DEATH.


 Stains Confession Makes a Big Sensa-
 tion at Dexter Though 1t Hs Discred-
 ited by Many.
 DEXTER, Me, Oct. 13.-The story ot the confession of Charles F. Stain, who claims 1 to have been accessory to the murder of Bank 1 Cashier Barron, was a great surprise to the people of this town. The confession, how l ever, was not news to those on the inside of | the Barron case as it has been several months l developing. A most careful scrutiny into | the details is understood to confirm Stains l story The facts of the confession have been, however, kept exclusively in the possession of counsel for the estate and 8 few friends of 1 the widow and exeeutor. The Barron case has been so much discussed during the past eight years that two parties have been formed, each holding firm convictions as to | the manner of Barron's death Among the | sssuIciders," as they are termed, the story is met with scof and an allegation that comes | from deeply rooted belief that the whole l tale is connection. As Cashier Curtis of the National. bank puts it, 'I do not take particle of stock in it. I believe Two others of the same party alluding I to it consoled each other with such remarks as the following: "The wrong parties con- fessed, for this fellow knows nothing about it in any way. He was not here." The story is full of inconsistencies, many of them say. Those who believed that Treasurer Barron was murdered hail the story as likely to pro duce tangible proof that he was most foully dealt with both in his death and since. President Bradbury of the bank said it was evident that the story was told by someone
 who knew something about the situation of
 1,or,lI and fhaa air rI110af n r-
 ron's death, but the story had been so much
 told and retold in the papers that 1t was quite
 possible that the story was manufactured or was the work of some crank who
 wanted notoriety expected some reward.
 Still he was unwilling to discount the story in advance and authorized the statement that no persons were more anxious to find some good proof that Mir. Barron did not commit suicide than the officers of the bank. If this confession had any real foundation they would gladly receive it. Mr. Crosby, who has been attorney for the bank in the cases growing out of this matter, also expressed himself in the same manner and hoped thorough investigation of the story would confirm it's truth. He remarked, however, that it was an unnatural son who would con- fess and cause the arrest of his father for murder. He also said that the alleged con- fession showed much familiarity with the circumstances of Treasurer Barron's death.
 The Prisoners Brought to Dexter.
 DEXTER, Me, Oct. 13.-The alleged mur- deTers of Treasurer Barron, Stain and Crom- we'll, arrived in Dexter from Boston on the evening train in charge of detectives They are now held in the custody of keepers at the Exchange Hotel and it is expected hearing will be held Friday before the municipal court 4 considerable crowd collected at the station eager for look at the prisoners and the hotel is full of gazers. There is a good deal of excitement and the affair brings to mind the scenes in 1879 when the notori- | ous Jimmy Hope was brought to Dexter by Detective Wiggin. MT. Copeland, the execu- tor of the estate is now on business trip to New Hampshire, hence it cannot be learned how the estate stands in regard to the prose ! cution of these men nor how it has assisted in ferreting the matter out. From all thut can be learned it seems that they have had little to do with it and that Deputy Shsrif Mitchell has pro- ceeded on his own expense in 1 looking it up. The story published in a Bangor paper that MT. Anderson, the man mentioned in Stains story, was the only I stranger in Dexter that day is not true, as there are several parties that on the after I noon of that day saw strangers iR and about | the bank One man, now dead, the father ! in-law of MT. Barron, claimed to have gone Il to the door of the bank about o'clock on the afternoon of that day and to have seen I stranger, 8 large, tall man, first standing I cloae by the door of the savings bank room l and then as he came in to go up stairs. The ! man walked back through the door of the ! Masonic hall at the rear of the hallway. | Others saw them coming out of the doorway ! slowly after Cashier Curtis of the national | bank entered his bank rooms close by that | of the savings bank and in the same build ! ing Still others saw strangers answering ! the same description on the street walking ! away from that portion of the village. How | these things will tally with the circumstan- ces connected with the men brought here re- mains to be seen.
 Perhaps Cromwell Wasn't There.
 SOUTH WALPoLE, Mass, Oct. 13.-The l family of Oliver Cromwell, who is in custody l charged with the murder of Treasurer Bar rod of the Dexter bank, were ignorant of his | arrest until this evening, when they were in- formed of the fact by reporter. Cromwell ! first wife, who was Stains daughter, and has been married to his present wife fifteen years. | For the last five years the family has lived in South Walpole and with the exception of ! short time that CromWell was conhned 1n Dedham iail for stealing his wife says he has | not been away from home during their mar riage Account books are said to be in ex- istence showing that Cromwell was at work | in or near the field on the day after Barron was killed, which if true would show conclusive ly that Cromwell could not have had hand in his murder.
 The DepOsitors Will Lose Nothing.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Conptroller Tren holm said to day that he did not expect to l receive the report of the examiner in charge | of the Stafford National bank of Stafford l Springs, Ct., for several days yet. He was | satisfied, however, from what he knew of the | bank and its officers that the depositors will \ sustain no pecuniary loss by the banks sus- pension.
 THE DETROITS WIN AGAIN.